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Nov 23, 2021 · Fundamentals
Reading Notes on OSDI20 Best Paper hXDP: Efficient Software Packet Processing on FPGA NICs
This article reviews the OSDI20 best paper on hXDP, explaining why combining XDP with FPGA NICs can alleviate CPU bottlenecks, describing the challenges of eBPF offload to low‑frequency FPGA, and summarizing the custom instruction‑set optimizations and test results that achieve comparable performance to multi‑GHz CPUs.
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